Alumni and friends will have a rare opportunity to learn from a fellow Cornellian about her efforts to bring the book Real Women Have Curves to Broadway. This webinar features Peggy Koenig ’78, trustee emeritus and campaign co-chair, who will share her experience, joined by lead producer Jack Noseworthy. Desirée Jellerette ’82, co-owner and co-founder of Power Media Group International, will moderate.

Event details:
Date: Thursday, March 20, 2025
Time: 6:00 p.m.
Location: Zoom | Zoom details will be shared in your registration confirmation email.

Special ticket discount offer for Cornell alumni:

The Cornell community is invited to attend Real Women Have Curves during its preview run at the James Earl Jones Theatre on April 3, 2025 at 7:30 p.m. at a discounted rate. If you’re interested in attending the musical, you can purchase tickets for this performance separately and directly through this link. Once you click the link, select April 3 from the calendar, hit next, choose your seats, and proceed with the checkout process. The promo code CORNELL should automatically apply when you click the link. However, if it’s not applied, simply enter the code CORNELL manually. Tickets to the musical are limited.

From left to right: Peggy Koenig ’78 and Jack Noseworthy

About the speakers:
Peggy Koenig ’78 is the chair emeritus of Abry. Previously, she was the co-CEO and managing partner of the firm. From 1988 through 1992, Koenig was a vice president, partner, and member of the board of directors of Sillerman Communications Management Corporation. She is a trustee emeritus of the Cornell Board of Trustees and chair of the Advisory Board for the Jeb E. Brooks School for Public Policy at Cornell and a member of the Cornell Tech Council. She is a member of the board of Hack Diversity and the National Book Foundation. She is also the producing director of Black Cap Productions and a producing partner for the Broadway show Real Women Have Curves. Koenig received her MBA from the Wharton Business School. She also received a fellowship from Harvard University’s Advanced Leadership Initiative.

Jack Noseworthy is the co-founder of Truworthy Productions along with Tony and Olivier Award-winning director/choreographer Sergio Trujillo. In their Truworthy venture, Jack is passionate about bringing authentic, diverse, and socially conscious works of theater, film, and television to life. He is an acclaimed producer and dynamic, experienced fundraiser on the major gifts team at Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, where he successfully collaborates with colleagues, helping to grow and steward relationships for their annual giving society, the Angels, and Visionary Circle, responsible for raising $4M of the foundation’s annual budget. In addition, Jack manages the Broadway Cares NextGen Network—creating giving opportunities for young professionals with a passion for giving back to the community. Jack received his master’s degree in Performing Arts Administration from New York University and is a proud graduate of The Boston Conservatory at Berklee, as well as the Commercial Theatre Institute.

About the moderator:
Desirée Jellerette ’82, a producer and line producer from New York City, has worked on over 20 feature films, dozens of music videos, and two hit TV shows. Her independent moviemaking experience includes work with top film directors, such as Spike Lee, M. Night Shyamalan, Julian Schnabel, and Jason Alexander. Desirée’s projects include Def by Temptation (1990), Mo’ Better Blues (1990), Malcolm X (1992), Basquiat (1996), Jungle Fever (1991), Sex & the Other Man (1996), Crooklyn (1994); Jean Doumanian and Jason Alexander’s project Just Looking (1999), Mo’nique’s Hair Show (2004), Wide Awake (1998), Carlos Diegos’ Tieta do Agreste (1996). She has worked on TV shows from NBC’s Saturday Night Live to BET’s ComicView, and music videos for artists like Snoop Dogg, E40, Master P, Shaq, Mobb Deep, Ice Cube, and Projecto Uno. Desirée has line produced, production managed, or coordinated numerous feature films, documentaries and shorts like Showtime-sponsored Dense, and has worked on the post-production side of many of the above and other projects. Desirée’s work also includes New York’s biggest independent film market and festival, the Independent Feature Project (IFP) for a season.

Desirée graduated from Cornell University’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences with a degree in Business Management, Columbia University’s Graduate School of Film: Producing and Production Finance; and New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts: Budgeting and Scriptwriting, and also attended Robert Redford’s Sundance Producer’s Program. Desirée has appeared on the cover of The Gleaner’s Flair magazine, Kingston, Jamaica’s top weekly magazine, for her work with the Area Youth Foundation on AIDS Awareness in Kingston.

Event questions? Contact Veronica McFall
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